S.t. Hussain Ma
Assistant Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Shumon obtained a MA ( summa cum laude) in Prehistoric Archaeology from Cologne University (Germany) in 2013. His thesis concerned an in-depth technological study of Upper Palaeolithic stone artefact assemblages from southern Jordan. His emphatically multidisciplinary research interests cover a range of different but conceptually interconnected topics at the interface of archaeology, anthropology, ecology, cognitive science and philosophy to do with hominin evolution.
Research Interest
Shumon Hussain is currently a PhD researcher with the Human Origins Group. His research is funded by the (German) Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. In his (epistemological) PhD project he studies divergent styles of lithic analysis in palaeolithic archaeology, in particular French versus Anglo-American approaches, and how they impact the empirical data.
Publications
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Hussain S.T. (2015), Technological Conduits along the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in the Southern Levant: Some Conceptual Considerations. In: Schyle, D., Richter, J. (Eds.) Pleistocene Archaeology of the Petra Area in Jordan. no. 5 Leidorf: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH. 396-406.
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Neugebauer-Maresch C., Einwögerer T., Richter J., Maier A., Hussain & S.T. (2016), Kammern-Grubgraben. Neue Erkenntnisse zu den Grabungen 1985-1994, The Journal of European Archaeology 100: 225-250.
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Hussain S.T. & Breyer T. (2017), Menschwerdung, Verkörperung und Empathie. Perspektiven im Schnittfeld von Anthropologie und Paläolitharchäologie. In: Etzelmüller G., Fuchs Th., Tewes C. (Eds.) Verkörperung - eine neue interdisziplinäre Anthropologie. Berlin: de Gruyter. 211-249.
